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Boot camp was about to convene Sunday as Ryan Garko assessed the past week’s Tigers draft and new recruits he and his cohorts will begin shaping this week on the back lots at TigerTown, in Lakeland, Florida. “Brought four in Friday,” said Garko, who heads player-development for the Tigers. “As soon as they sign, they’re

Seattle — Alex Lange isn’t one to duck and cover. He takes things on directly, the good, the bad and the unsettling. “I’ve been struggling,” he said, sitting in front of his locker Saturday. “I’ve been pretty terrible the last month and a half.” The thing is, though, the two-plus months before that, he was

Seattle – Kerry Carpenter said he felt “freedom and peace” walking into the batter’s box on Friday. “That helps me see the ball so much better,” he said. It must look about the size of a beach ball right now. After hitting a two-run home run in the first inning Friday, he doubled down on

Seattle — Turns out, like a lot of Tigers fans Friday night, reliever Jason Foley was angered and confused by the video challenge in the eighth inning of the Tigers’ 5-4 win. The difference between Foley and the fans, his anger and confusion will cost him some money. It was 5-3 when Julio Rodriguez tried

Seattle – Matthew Boyd never felt right. Not since early in 2021. Not even after he had flexor tendon surgery and rehabbed his way back first into a bullpen role with the playoff-bound Mariners last season and then into the Tigers’ rotation. Never felt right. His stuff, the ease in which he could throw and

Seattle — The Tigers packed a lot of subplots into their nerve-wracking 5-4 win over the Seattle Mariners Friday night at T-Mobile Park. “Very happy with the result,” manager AJ Hinch said. “It’s good to be back up and running with a win.” Home runs by Kerry Carpenter, Akil Baddoo and Nick Maton accounted for

Seattle — Michael Lorenzen learned a valuable lesson Tuesday from his first All-Star Game appearance. Never leave your caffeine supplement in the clubhouse. Or, to put it another way, nausea is your friend. “I usually take quite a bit of caffeine before I pitch,” he said before the game Friday night. “So when I first

The 2023 MLB Draft is in the books, with a bevy of new prospects poised not only to bolster farm systems for 30 major-league teams, but reshuffle prospect rankings. Max Clark is the Detroit Tigers’ crown jewel, selected at No. 3 overall out of Franklin, Indiana, who debuted in Baseball America’s updated top 100 prospects

Detroit — We shouldn’t even be having this conversation. It doesn’t seem right, or real. But, because the Tigers reside in baseball’s ugliest division, we’re forced to play along. They might as well, too. The unofficial second half of the season starts now, and by all metrics, the Tigers are a bottom-third team, yet somehow

Note: This is the second of a two-part series of midterm assessments of the Tigers’ roster. The grades for pitchers were in Thursday’s editions. Detroit — When you look at the position-player parts individually, it’s fair to wonder how the Tigers managed to win 39 games before the All-Star break. Offensively, for all the gains

Seattle — As the Tigers commence the second half of the season Friday night at T-Mobile Park, you might want to brace yourself. There’s going to be turbulence. Roster turbulence. Among the storylines to look out for: ▶ The ever-evolving, revolving starting rotation Eduardo Rodriguez, almost certainly, is in his final couple of weeks as

The Detroit Tigers released their 2024 schedule Thursday. The Tigers will open the season March 28 on the road with back-to-back three-game series at the Chicago White Sox and the New York Mets. The Tigers home opener at Comerica Park is April 5 against the Oakland Athletics. Times have yet to be announced. Here’s a

Note: This is the first of a two-part series of midterm assessments of the Tigers’ roster. The grades for position players are coming in Friday’s editions. Detroit — They started the season without two of their top young starting pitchers: Casey Mize and Tarik Skubal. They lost Matt Manning in April. They lost veterans Spencer

Big-league baseball’s cruelty says we should wait, probably a long time, before deciding whether a MLB Draft has been good or not to a particular team. No need here to wait on the Tigers’ picks from Sunday through Tuesday. They got multiple Comerica Park players from their 21 turns that began Sunday evening and stretched

Associated Press |  The Detroit News Seattle – Elias Díaz hit a two-run homer off Félix Bautista in the eighth inning after Tigers pitcher Michael Lorenzen kept the National League off the board in the seventh inning, as the NL snapped a nine-game losing streak in the All-Star Game with a 3-2 win over the American

Never are baseball scouts sure what they’ve gone and done in a MLB Draft that’s infamous for breaking hearts and bringing on a future deluge of “why” questions from their bosses. Except, perhaps, when you do sort of know you got it right. The Tigers were feeling good – persuasively good – Tuesday evening after

The Tigers wrapped up their 2023 MLB Draft with the following players Tuesday: ▶ Round 11 (No. 320 overall): Jim Jarvis, SS, Alabama ▶ Round 12 (350): Andrew Dunford, RHP, Houston County (Georgia) High ▶ Round 13 (380): Brett Callahan, OF, St. Joseph’s ▶ Round 14 (410): David Smith, 2B, Connecticut ▶ Round 15 (440): Brady Cerkownyk, C, Connors State

Ronald Blum |  Associated Press Seattle – Toronto’s Vladimir Guerrero Jr. joined Vladimir Sr. to become the first father-son duo to win the All-Star Home Run Derby, beating Tampa Bay’s Randy Arozarena 25-23 in the final round on Monday night. Guerrero defeated Julio Rodríguez 21-20 in the semifinals after the Mariners star hit a record 41

Ronald Blum |  Associated Press Seattle – Former Tiger Sean Casey was hired Monday as hitting coach of the struggling New York Yankees, a day after the team fired Dillon Lawson. Casey, a three-time All-Star during a 12-year big league career including a .281 batting average in two years with Detroit from 2006-2007, had spent

Lynn Henning |  Special to The Detroit News More juggling, calculating, speculating – and hoping – were part Monday of what the Tigers insist was a fruitful second day of selecting in the 2023 MLB Draft. The Tigers went big early in scooping-up a pair of prep hotshots they seem sure they can steer from college